So I'm going to tangentially discourse here and I'm going to start off by saying this is not about wanderstop, it has nothing to do with wanderstop, it is about my personal tastes, I am not doing game design on wanderstop
When I see complaints that there's two, three, five games in, say, wholesome direct that are farming games or etc it's like... look. I know that I enjoy these genres and can basically continue buying them forever. But the idea of, there's five of these, that's too many, in a world where we get something like 30 games a year that can be distilled down to "you shoot everyone you see" really reveals to me the maybe unconscious biases a lot of people have. I think we could probably see a Devolver showcase of nothing but shooters of various kinds for 2 hours straight and no one would come out of it like "this just goes to show you that the Shooter playbook is shallow and the devolver showcase shouldn't happen anymore".
I get it! A lot of people don't like the kind of stuff Wholesome Games is showing. Even I have reservations about the name. But I think that the degree to which this topic in particular gets scrutiny every year is absurdly outsized compared to literally any other subculture in all of games.
to be honest the idea of "There's too many of these types of games" always feels like a title that feels reductive and undeserved for a lot of things, especially when there's a far smaller number of games that are "the same" in those cases.
Like when people try to say that there are dozens of "Quirky Earthbound Inspired RPGs" and its like who cares
